hunter-gather

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To be a hunter-gatherer

   To be a hunter-gatherer; to hunt (animals) and gather (edible plants) for food.

   • A study from the University of Utah (surely one of the middle-American desert's most respected seats of learning) finds that prehistoric man only managed to hunter-gather at the rate of one large animal per month.
   • [T]he last of the wild Colorado elk was hunter-gathered by a table of wine-tasting bankers.
   • Deprived of the freedom to hunter-gather at will across the great open plains of the British High Street, I’ve learned much of what I need I already possess in my metaphorical cave.
2. 2

   Nonstandard form of hunter-gatherer.

   • Native Americans and other hunter-gathers would give thanks to their prey for giving up its life so the eater might live (sort of like saying grace).
   • Trading livestock might have represented “an initial step for domestication” in hunter-gatherer societies, [Ben] Krause-Kyora said.
   • He [Randy Haas] also said it is theoretically possible that hunter-gathers such as the Andeans were meat-based to start with and the “transition to a plant-based diet happened much more quickly than previously thought”.

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